Bicycle Quotes - Page 13

• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  Freeman Dyson

  Brother, Successful, Technology

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.17, Universities Press

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• I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

  Lech Walesa

  Father, Son, Thinking

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• Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

  Gilda Radner

  Fall, Riding, Actors

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Explain to me how he [her son] can ride a bicycle, run, play ball, set up a camp, swing, fight a war, swim and race for eight hours ... and has to be driven to the garbage can.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, War, Fighting

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• I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Impact, Pedals

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• I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Up North, Chicago

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Europe, Growth, Fascination

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• Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise is the cause of many of today's diseases. If we can get somewhere in time on foot, always walk instead of taking a vehicle. It is good exercise. Only if we have to go far should we depend on vehicles. Use a bicycle, whenever possible. This will save money, too.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Yoga

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• By now, a million pedal strokes have etched the muscles in my legs with a single purpose: to power the crank and move the bicycle forward. Food flows into my body, bringing it power and strength. It is no longer a question of struggle. Now the journey evolves into the spiritual realm-where the pedaling becomes instinctive. It's a free-flow of energy that comes through my body and willingly expresses itself in the flight of the pedals.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Spiritual, Travel, Struggle

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• Most people unfamiliar with the men in a new town might search for love until they find it. I picked out some guy on my second day in LA, who worked at the local bicycle shop, and handed my virginity to him. “You can fill a tire? Sounds good to me. Let's call it a date.” Needless to say he wasn't Mr. Right.

  Kathy Griffin

  Men, Mr Right, People

  Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Math, Race, Space

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, 2003.

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• The people I see on bicycles look like organic-gardening zealots who advocate federal regulation of bedtime and want American foreign policy to be dictated by UNICEF. These people should be confined.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Gardening, Want

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Would Be, Modern Life, England

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Sunday, Weekend

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• At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

  Philipp Meyer

  School, Years, Volunteer

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• My favorite movie ever is Bicycle Thieves.

  Jennifer Morrison

  Thieves, My Favorite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know a lot of people talk about Seal's bicycle shorts, but it is the truth! That is what he was wearing the first time I met him and I was overwhelmed.

  Heidi Klum

  People, Firsts, Overwhelmed

  "Heidi Klum: No Regrets About Risqué Oprah Interview" by Samantha McIntyre and Oliver Jones, people.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mean, People, Special

  "'Yoga Pants are Ruining Women' and Other Style Advice From Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Kathleen Hale, www.elle.com. March 24, 2015.

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• It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Suits You, Blue, Rubber

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• For cardio, I do SoulCycle. I really dont like to run, plus I have terrible knees and get bored on the elliptical. SoulCycle is basically a dance party on a bicycle, and you burn calories, and its so fun.

  Allison Williams

  Running, Fun, Party

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• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

  Paul Eldridge

  Wisdom, Long, Twenties

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• Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

  Alex Steffen

  Moving, Cities, Feet

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Life is like riding a bicycle. You get nowhere standing up, so get up on that seat and go!

  Lynne Ewing

  Life Is Like, Riding, Get Up

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• I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Keys, Russia, Europe

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• To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

  Angela Carter

  Men, Two, Giving

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